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Thursday, July 28, 2016

Is
it ever a good thing to be the bad guy? In Warner Bros. Pictures's
“Suicide Squad,” the most improbable crew of crazy criminals ever
thrown together will find out when they are united on a mission to
save the world that turns into the wildest, weirdest, wickedest ride
of their already insanity-filled lives.

“The
Suicide Squad is essentially a team—though a wholly reluctant
one—of DC’s Super-Villains,” explains writer/director David
Ayer. “Because who better to defeat one Super-Villain than another
or, in this case, a whole gang of Super-Villains? It was pretty
exciting for me because it let me explore a different version of the
superhero movie; they’re the absolute flipside of heroes.”

Though
they may not consider their exploits to be heroic yet (or ever), the
Squad’s adventure will encompass all the heightened thrills, shrewd
antics and full-blown combat that go along with the actions of their
more traditional counterparts. They’ll just have to try to behave,
to be on the better side of bad…for now.

Producer
Charles Roven, a veteran of the genre, offers, “I felt it was
really interesting to make a film with the DC bad guys, to see which
of them are truly evil and which might have some redeeming factors.
The Suicide Squad is comprised of all these deadly incarcerated
villains. What would they do, given the chance to reduce their
sentences or even gain their freedom, even if it’s likely they
won’t survive the mission? And they take that shot—not that
they’re given much choice.”

Though
seemingly given a “choice,” the prisoners who will become the
Suicide Squad will have to learn to work as a team—literally. This
is no voluntary gig. Plucked from the notorious Belle Reve Federal
Penitentiary, which is designed to hold the “worst of the worst,”
Deadshot and fellow inmates Harley Quinn, Killer Croc and Diablo,
among others, aren’t exactly given an appealing alternative to
playing along. U.S. intelligence officer Amanda Waller, a ruthless,
manipulative operative who prides herself on her ability to get
people to act against their own self-interest, sees to that.

“It
starts with the screenplay, and David’s are incredibly rich, the
characters jump off the page, because he creates this incredible
sense of reality,” producer Richard Suckle says. “What I love,
too, is that he has this edginess to his writing; there’s a swagger
in the characters and films that he’s made. He’s the perfect guy
to take these Super-Villains and make them as palatable and exciting
as anyone else in the world of a DC film.”

Roven
readily agrees, adding, “One of the wonderful things about David’s
writing is that he can certainly hit the dramatics, but he also gives
these characters great personality, and that results in many of them
having fabulous wit, great lines of dialogue that fit into the
situation, that come from the character so they feel real. Even in
such intensified circumstances as these anti-heroes find themselves
in, you just can’t help but laugh and enjoy them, they are just so
unusually funny. It’s an action adventure film that has a lot of
dark humor to it.”

“For
me, the power of the DC brand is its universal qualities; there is a
truth to these characters,” Ayer says. “They’re a vehicle for
our modern values, but the characters themselves are also echoes of
past mythologies. That’s their timeless nature and why I think
they’ll always be attractive. And that’s why I was eager to tell
a story with this particular set of characters, and to see them come
to life on film.”

Few
teams could be considered more visually appealing than the wildly
colorful members of the Suicide Squad, who, along with the pure
spectacle of the actioner’s larger-than-life battles and
tenaciously hedonistic soundtrack, present an all-out psychedelic
confection for summer moviegoers.

Opening
across the Philippines in 3D, and in 2D, and in IMAX 3D theaters
on Thursday, August 4, “Suicide Squad” is distributed
worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment
Company.